Lucky Linky, Freebie, Sale, and Giveaway Winners

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Are you feelin' lucky today?! (or just hungover from last night haha) Thank the heavens that I am not hungover. No drinking for me last night! I went to dinner and a movie with my favorite people. My sissy, her fiance, and my Mary! We saw "Oz The Great and Powerful". It was really good and pretty funny. The wicked witches face looked strange though. I'm not sure what was going on there.

 

Well I love the weekend, especially when there is a holiday. I am linking up with the always amazing Brittany from Lovely Literacy and More for her Lucky Linky! You should definitely link up if you haven't already. I would love to hear what you are lucky to have in your life! The only rules are:

*Share one or more things that make you lucky

*Share your luck with others by sharing a freebie

 

 

Here are the things in my life that I hold nearest and dearest to my heart.

 

MY FAMILY

 

 

 I am so fortunate to have such an amazing family. We are unbelievably close and have the most fun together. I literally have more fun with my family than anyone in the world. My parents are the kindest, most generous people and my sister and I are best friends. I love them :)

 

MY MARY

 

 

Mary is one of the biggest parts of my life and I love her dearly! She is always with me through thick and thin and I could not be luckier to have her in my life.

 

MY PUPPIES

 

 I love love love love them!!! They are the most amazing little fuzz heads in the entire world. They are literally my babies. So darn cute.

 

MY TEAM

 

 My entire team is not in this picture, there are 2 other amazing friends, but I couldn't seem to find a picture with all of us in it. I cannot tell you how fortunate I am to have this group of amazing women teaching beside me. They are kind, loving, warm, and generous people who are creative and awesome teachers. They save by butt anytime it needs saving! I love them.

 

MY BLOGGY BUDDIES

 

Joining the blogging world has been one of the most rewarding experiences. I have met some absolutely amazing friends and gained such fabulous idea. I am inspired every single day. There are SO many blogs out there that I love and stalk daily, but these are my closest bloggy buds around! I love these ladies so much!

 

And now for the best part - the FREEBIE! Click the picture below to grab a free copy of the KWL chart from my Ocean Animals unit!

 

 

I am also linking up with Mrs. Wheeler from Mrs. Wheeler's First Grade for her Lucky Day Sale Linky and Amy from Albuquerque Amy's First Graders for her Golden Deals Linky. I am having a 20% off sale today at TPT! Be sure to check it out and snag some things while they are cheap cheap cheap! Check out my store HERE!

 

Earlier this week I had a little giveaway to share my new Oceans Unit with 2 of my followers. I said that I would pick on Thursday. I am SO sorry that I did not post the winners on Thursday. Instead, I am announcing the winners today and because it is 3 days late, I decided to giveaway 3 more copies! So now 5 lucky followers are getting my unit! Here they are:

 

 

 

#15 - Mrs. Leeby from Learning with Mrs. Leeby

#4 - Karyn from A is for Apple B is for Blog

#1 - Jessica from Fun in PreK-1

#21 - Danielle from Carolina Teacher

#19 - Elizabeth from Kickin' it in Kindergarten

 

I am also sending a copy to one of my bloggy besties Amanda from Mrs. Pauley's Kindergarten, just because she is so super supportive and awesome! Thanks for all of your positivity and love girl!

Check your emails ladies! I hope you are able to use and enjoy the unit!

 

And there you have it! Only one more week until SPRING BREAK! I seriously cannot wait. I hope this week FLYS by!

 Oh and before I forget, here are some totally awesome giveaways that are going on. Click the pictures below to take you there and check them out:

 

 

 

Have a very lucky and relaxing St. Patty's Day!

Love and Hugs!

Awesome Leprechaun Traps and Our Ocean Display

Helllllo and Happy Wednesday, oh beautiful ones! What a crrrrazy week this has been! Yesterday we were busy little bees, still learning about the wonders of the ocean! My kids are so into this. It's interesting to see what topics the kids respond to. Last year, my kids were obsessed with our unit on outer space, and not really into ocean animals. This year my kids are going bananas over it! I can't wait to do our space unit. That is one of my favey fave things to teach. Moving on.... After school yesterday I raced to physical therapy where he proceeded to tell me that my knee has tons of built up scar tissue from the surgery. So tomorrow I am going back in (and having to miss school again, UGH) and they are going to put me out again. While I am asleep, they are literally just going to bend my knee and rip all of the scar tissue. Ew ew ew, ow ow ow. Those are the things that were running through my head while he was telling me. I'm hoping it doesn't hurt too bad because I am planning on going back up to school later in the afternoon for the student showcase. It is basically a night when the kids come in with their families and share all of the wonderful things they have been learning about! I just cannot miss it. So I plan on going, even if I have to lay on the ground and roll into school.

 

Now let's get to a little bit of fun :) As I told you on Monday, we have been having so much fun with "The Naughty Leprechaun" story. We even created a graph to vote on which leprechaun we wanted to visit (the nice or the naughty). On Monday they picked the nice leprechaun, so on Tuesday morning they found a magic pot-of-gold full of yummy treats and a new lucky friend waiting for them! He even had a note to explain why he was there :)

 

 

They were so excited about their new friend, who we named Clovers, and were completely determined to catch him when he came to life that night. How lucky it was that the kids all created Leprechaun Traps as their March family project. What a coincidence (hehe)! They turned out SOOO super cute. They had a blast presenting them to the class and explaining exactly how they would work.

 

 

 

 We also had fun with a few more ocean activities from my new Ocean Animals unit! To start out our unit, I had the kids fill out the K and W part of their KWL chart independently. Then, we created a big KWL chart together and the students added ideas that they had written on their paper. This was the first time I did a KWL this way and the kids did such a fabulous job. It's always awesome when they can actually do things independently. Check out how great they are:

 

 

  At the end of the day yesterday, the kids voted again for which leprechaun would visit, and they chose the nice twin, Liam to visit us again! We carefully set up all of the traps around the room to prepare for their visit. We couldn't WAIT to see if we would catch him or Clovers in action!!

 

 

 

When we came in today, we found that those sneaky leprechauns had escaped our trap and that Clovers was sitting on a flower, hiding his magic from us again. They did leave some magic gold coins in each of the traps! Wowie wow! They carefully cradled them in their hands, so excited to be holding a little bit of leprechaun magic.

 

 

And today we finally finished up all of our end-of-quarter assessments. Can I get a WOO HOO?! I am so relieved. We were getting pretty burnt out (and by 'we', I mainly mean 'me'). We used the rest of the afternoon to prepare for the student showcase. My team did such a terrific job and we are so proud of it! Here's a sneak peek of how awesome it looks:

 

 

 

 Gosh, I just re-read this post and it is all over the place! haha So sorry if this was ridiculously confusing. And to end on a random note, because apparently that's the kind of mood I am in right now, this is the adorableness that is sitting next to me! Funny little fuzz head :)

  

 

 

Hope you are having a stress-free and fabby fab week my sweets!

Hugs and love!